58. What does the underlined expression “Lee Ehmke's customers” refer to?

A. Architects           B. Animals             C. Bathrooms          D. Visitors

57. What is Lee Ehmke?

A. An official           B. A professor          C. A designer           D. A feeder

56. Who wins the Man Booker prize according to the passage?

A. Gordon Brown              B. Ian McEwan              C. Lloyd Jones           D. Anne Enright

E

Architects often have to deal with difficult clients (客戶), but Lee Ehmke's customers are especially hard to work for. They sleep through meetings. They never pay. They don't even use bathrooms when they have to go.

Nevertheless, Ehmke puts up with such rude behavior, and he does it happily. Why? Because he designs homes for gorillas(大猩猩), bears, lions, and other zoo animals. And he enjoys the challenge of looking at the world through their exotic (奇異的) eyes.

"The role of a zoo designer is to think as much as possible about what will make each animal comfortable, happy, and active," says Ehmke, director of the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley.

"It would be wrong to say you can know what an animal is thinking and feeling," he adds. "But we do our best to get as close to that as possible when we're designing homes for them."

Most zoo visitors focus on the animals, not on the habitats and barriers that fence the animals in. But details like these have received extra attention since December, when a female Siberian tiger escaped her enclosure (圍欄) at the San Francisco Zoo. The 4-year-old, 350-pound cat killed one person and injured two others.

The incident raised fears among zoo goers and sent staff at zoos across the nation rushing to evaluate how safe their own exhibits are. Still, experts say, the tragic event should not scare people away from zoos.

"There have probably been 5 billion visits to zoos in the last 50 years," Ehmke says. "This is the first time this has happened."

55. How many books in October are introduced in the passage?

A. One                  B. Two                C. Three             D. Four

54. What would be the best title for the article from Prospect?

A. In Search of British Values                                     B. The Final Section

C. The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship             D. 50 Writers and Intellectuals

53. What do these five books have in common?

A. Each of the articles in each book is introduced in detail.

B. They are all published in the year and have one article digest.

C. Each of them is commented by a great man in the world.

D. They all introduce the most influential people.

52. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. If I find what I’ve done or written is wrong, I’ll appreciate myself.

B. I never appreciate other people because I think others are foolish.

C. If you think poorly of your friend’s writings, perhaps he’ll be angry at you.

D. Lao Wang will die of starvation because he never praises his melons.

D

Business Week (Oct. 8, 2007)

  Introducing Business Week’s Power 100, our ranking of the most influential people in the world of sports.

Prospect (展望) (Oct.20, 2007)

  In July, Gordon Brown published a green paper called “The Governance of Britain.” The final section said that we need to be clearer about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and what it means to be British. It proposed (倡議) “to work with the public to develop a British statement of values.” We asked 50 writers and intellectuals (知識(shí)分子) to give us their thoughts on this statement and what should inform it.

Science (Sep. 28, 2007)

  In the journal’s 28 September 2007 issue, Science, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, is pleased to present the winners and honorable mentions in the fifth annual Science and Engineering Visualization (視覺) Challenge.

Time (Nov. 1, 2007)

From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote controlled dragonfly (蜻蜓)―a bright display of ingenuity (獨(dú)創(chuàng)性).

Guardian (Oct.17, 2007)

Against all the chances, and seeing off competition from favourite to win Ian McEwan and Lloyd Jones, rank outsider Anne Enright, 45, has been awarded the Man Booker prize for what the judges called a “powerful, uncomfortable and even at times angry book,” The Gathering.

51. The writer points out with an example about an old Chinese saying that _________.

A. self-appreciation is also an active way of attitude to life and work

B. a false modesty will lose confidence in continuing with writing

C. one person pauses to admire his own essays without self-appreciation

D. one doesn’t praise his melons if his melons are really sweet and juicy

50. The underlined word “zhuojing” in Paragraph 4 means _________.

A. wife high in position                         B. wife low in position

C. wise wife                                                 D. foolish wife

49. The best title for the passage would be __________.

A. On Self-Appreciation                        B. Types of Appreciation

C. Power of Appreciation                          D. Uses of Appreciation